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It took me a moment to work out what was wrong with this bike

I hope he made a better job of restoring the brakes !

if it works why not 😳

I didn’t spot that there were more pictures!

“ restored brakes suspension and derailleur
better than the day i got it”

Doubt that..

I think his definition of “restored” is a little different to mine. Every one of those systems has been messed up, in some cases in more than one way.

At least he only got half of the forks back to front…..

Is he thinking of opening a bike shop?

RD naughty

Depends how bad it was when he got it I suppose.

Fork crown is the wrong way around.

Kudos to him for doing the “forks on backwards” thing in a completely new way.

so presume he’s taken the forks off the bike, stripped them, and put the lowers back on back to front? How else could he he have managed it? Christ alone knows what he did to them while he had them apart.

Kudos to him for doing the “forks on backwards” thing in a completely new way

It’s not completely new. I… ummmm…. know someone who fitted the lowers backwards once. However, it’s pretty obvious that there’s something wrong pretty quickly.

Kudos to him for doing the “forks on backwards” thing in a completely new way

Didn’t pinkbike do it for the grim donut, as a way of reducing fork offset even further?

A nice picture of a frayed brake cable as well. Utter death trap.

nickc

so presume he’s taken the forks off the bike, stripped them, and put the lowers back on back to front?

I…er….know someone who did that, once. Cough

Is he thinking of opening a bike shop?

Rebuilding the forks but backwards is inspired.

I know Halfords mechanics get a bad rap, but, come on…

I…er….know someone who did that, once. Cough

Turns out I also….err….know someone who did that too. Maybe it’s the same individual..

Maybe somebody on Facebook could message him and point out that things are usually done differently? It’s just possible he could sell that bike to a novice who doesn’t know any better and muight not realise how dangerous it is.